Aldo Leopold Quote

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing down; whether experience, so much touted among adults as the thing children lack, is not actually a progressive dilution of the essentials by the trivialities of living.

Illinois and Iowa: Red Legs Kicking, p. 120. - A Sand County Almanac, 1949 - "Illinois and Iowa: Red Legs Kicking," "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain,"

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing...

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing...

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing...

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as growing up is not actually a process of growing...